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[WIP] example of trait-based Dropshot server #5653

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@sunshowers sunshowers commented Apr 29, 2024

As discussed in #5247.

This PR converts the Nexus internal API to being a trait-based server, using the patched copy of Dropshot in oxidecomputer/dropshot#984. Thought converting a non-trivial but still relatively simple API would be able to give us a better sense of what we want the eventual API to look like.

The main advantage is that this lets you generate the internal API without having to compile all of Nexus. This is not only faster, I believe it completely solves issues where there are circular dependencies between different APIs. (For example, currently there's a Nexus internal API -> sled-agent -> Nexus internal API dependency, and changing the APIs can be extremely painful. With this approach, the API crates don't depend on each other -- only the implementation crates do.)

Another advantage is that it's pretty easy to write multiple implementations of the same API. So, for example, the simulated sled-agent can implement the same trait as the real one.

Created using spr 1.3.6-beta.1
Created using spr 1.3.6-beta.1
Created using spr 1.3.6-beta.1
path = "/sled-agents/{sled_id}",
}]
async fn sled_agent_get(
rqctx: RequestContext<Self>,
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Static dispatch is nicer because

  • you don't have to prove that the trait is object-safe
  • you can also add non-endpoint methods and other items to the trait
  • you don't need to use async-trait, leading to a nicer IDE/rust-analyzer experience.

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api.register(sled_agent_get)?;
api.register(sled_agent_put)?;
api.register(sled_firewall_rules_request)?;
api.register(switch_put)?;
api.register(rack_initialization_complete)?;
api.register(cpapi_instances_put)?;
api.register(cpapi_disks_put)?;
api.register(cpapi_volume_remove_read_only_parent)?;
api.register(cpapi_disk_remove_read_only_parent)?;
api.register(cpapi_producers_post)?;
api.register(cpapi_assigned_producers_list)?;
api.register(cpapi_collectors_post)?;
api.register(cpapi_artifact_download)?;

api.register(cpapi_upstairs_repair_start)?;
api.register(cpapi_upstairs_repair_finish)?;
api.register(cpapi_upstairs_repair_progress)?;
api.register(cpapi_downstairs_client_stop_request)?;
api.register(cpapi_downstairs_client_stopped)?;

api.register(saga_list)?;
api.register(saga_view)?;

api.register(ipv4_nat_changeset)?;

api.register(bgtask_list)?;
api.register(bgtask_view)?;
api.register(bgtask_activate)?;

api.register(blueprint_list)?;
api.register(blueprint_view)?;
api.register(blueprint_delete)?;
api.register(blueprint_target_view)?;
api.register(blueprint_target_set)?;
api.register(blueprint_target_set_enabled)?;
api.register(blueprint_regenerate)?;
api.register(blueprint_import)?;

api.register(sled_list_uninitialized)?;
api.register(sled_add)?;
api.register(sled_expunge)?;

api.register(probes_get)?;

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This is now automatically handled!

Created using spr 1.3.6-beta.1
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Closed in favor of #5844.

@sunshowers sunshowers closed this May 31, 2024
@sunshowers sunshowers deleted the sunshowers/spr/wip-example-of-trait-based-dropshot-server branch May 31, 2024 18:52
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